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Student ‘influenced boys found in Turkey’

Mohamed Amoudi studies engineering and science at Queen Mary University of London

A university student was arrested in Turkey alongside two schoolboys, with all three suspected of travelling to join Islamic State fighters in Syria, The Times can reveal.

Mohamed Amoudi, 19, was stopped with the two sixth-form students as they allegedly attempted to make the journey through Turkey and over the porous border into Isis-held territory.

The two younger teenagers are understood to have been religiously influenced by Mr Amoudi, whose activity on social media expressed radical religious views.

The three were brought back to Britain last Saturday and were arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks after the parents of the 17-year-old boys made a desperate plea for help to the police and a local councillor. They have been released on police bail. None of…